Category profile
- Dominance
- 86
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 90
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 94
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | |
| 1967 | 20 | |
| 1968 | 20 | |
| 1969 | 21 | |
| 1970 | 22 | |
| 1971 | 24 | |
| 1972 | 20 | |
| 1973 | 14 | |
| 1974 | 25 | |
| 1975 | 17 | |
| 1976 | 12 | |
| 1977 | 10 | |
| 1978 | 18 | |
| 1979 | 16 | |
| 1980 | 12 | |
| 1981 | 5 | |
| 1982 | 14 | |
| 1983 | 6 |
Data sources
- MLB.com
- Baseball Reference
- National Baseball Hall of Fame
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Ferguson Jenkins ranks #44 in Baseball
Ferguson Jenkins ranks 44th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 1116th of 2289 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 89.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 86, Peak 92, Longevity 90, Honours 86, Statistics 94. Those categories are normalised against the full Baseball reference universe of 262 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1965–1983 with 18 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1974, which sets the Peak component at 92. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes cy young awards 1, career wins 284, career strikeouts 3192, 20-win seasons 7.
Immediately ahead sits Albert Pujols on 89.2, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Rickey Henderson on 89.1. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Ferguson Jenkins GOAT Score explained
- Dominance86/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Jenkins stood above the field while competing. Scored 86/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak92/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1974. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity90/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 18 years of competition and 18 recorded seasons. Scored 90/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics94/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 94/100.
Top Jenkins comparisons
Ferguson Jenkins — frequently asked
- Is Ferguson Jenkins the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Ferguson Jenkins ranks 44th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 89.2, behind Babe Ruth on 94.6.
- What is Ferguson Jenkins's GOAT Score?
- 89.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 86 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 90 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 94 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Ferguson Jenkins rank all time?
- 1116th of 2289 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 44th within Baseball.
- Ferguson Jenkins vs Albert Pujols: who ranks higher?
- Ferguson Jenkins, on 89.2 against Albert Pujols's 89.2 — a margin of 0.0 points.